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Project SHINE and the Center for Intergenerational Learning is pleased to announce a new national report that analyzes the motivations of immigrant elders engaged in civic roles and highlights the promising practices of agencies who successfully engage them. Click below to download a full version of the report!

Community Treasures: Contributions of Older Immigrants and Refugees

To learn about the state of civic involvement among immigrant elders, focus groups and individual interviews were conducted in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Atlanta Georgia and Orange County California with 99 immigrant elders from seven major ethnolinguistic groups. We also spoke with key informants in the communities including Community Based Organizations to learn about the current efforts that sustain and promote the civic roles of elders who are foreign-born.

For more information about the publication, its key findings and implications for organizations and community leaders, click here.

Project SHINE is a national service learning program that supports a broad and diverse group of college students in building relationships with elderly immigrants and refugees through language, literacy and citizenship tutoring.

For information about specific SHINE programs throughout the country, click on "The National Consortium" icon below or one of our local sites links in the top left.

Its that time! Learner Survey's, Student Post Survey's, and Community Based Organization Survey's!  Don't forget the Faculty Survey below!